PMG's pay to be probed by Congress

[Postaltexan]

Congress will hold a hearing next month into why Postmaster General John E. Potter has gotten a nearly 40
 percent pay raise since 2006 and was awarded a six-figure incentive bonus last year, even as the U.S.
Postal Service faces a multibillion-dollar shortfall that threatens a day of mail delivery.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/23/congress-will-investigate-postmasters-pay/

[maddogdrake]

Now, I am probably wrong about this , but I thought it was illegal for anyone in government to get 'bonuses' incentive or otherwise...that it is a form of bribe...what happened to that law???

[trish]

read it carefully, they will be paid after they leave the postal service...I agree it is still payment. I'll take all the money they have screwed me out of in mail counts in a lump sum when I leave the postal service. In fact I could leave now if that was allowed. LOL

[VAX]

    They have gone around this and put it into a retirement package, you know like the one we get, woops mabe theirs a little bit better, you think?

    Like PMG Potter stated last year in a speech, we will all have to tighten our belts, guess he got a larger one first , so he could tighten it!

[luv_my_pups]

I think they should "probe" something else...LOL

That amount of money is just obscene, and crying broke to Congress at the same time.

I wonder if he drove an LLV there, one like mine with bald tires and screaming brakes.